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“I hate symbolic art in which the presentation loses all spontaneous movement in order to become a machine, an allegory -- a vain and misconceived effort because the very fact of giving an allegorical sense to a presentation clearly shows that we have to do with a fable which by itself has no truth either fantastic or direct; it was made for the demonstration of some moral truth.”

Giving Art Made Facts Shows Hate Order Loses Effort Moral Movement Direct Machines I Hate Fantastic Vain Spontaneous Presentation Demonstration Symbolic Fables Allegory

Author:Luigi Pirandello

“In the seventeenth chapter of St. Luke, it is written that the kingdom of God is within man, not one man nor a group of men, but in all men! In you! You, the people, have the power, the power to create machines, the power to create happiness! You, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure... Let us fight to free the world! To do away with national barriers! To do away with greed, with hate and intolerance! Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all mens happiness.”

“Although we will hate and fight the machines, we will be supplanted anyway, and rightly so, for the intelligent machines to which we will give birth may, better than we, carry on the striving toward the goal of understanding and using the Universe, climbing to heights we ourselves could never aspire to.”

Giving May Hate Fighting Universe Understanding Goal Modern Birth Machines Intelligent Strive Height Climbing Aspire Modern Life Intelligent Machines

Book:Past, Present, and Future

Source: Past, Present, and Future

“In order to write about the machine you have to know it, to live with it, to love it (or hate it). I think that true writing could be done on industrial subjects by people who work in industry, who are firmly linked with it. But ... and here is the opposite 'but', the technology of literary craftsmanship is itself a very fine and complex matter. Qualified specialists from industry prove themselves dilettantes in the field of literature. The needed synthesis is not yet in sight.”

“Twiddle-twiddle away at my softly clicky keyboard for a while, making twiddly adjustments all along- and then print what I have twiddled. Glare at the printout and snarl and curse and scribble almost illegibly all over it with a ballpoint pen. Go back to the machine and enter the scribbles. Repeat this procedure until I hate the very meaning of every word I know.”

Knows Hate Machines I Hate Curse Repeats Over It Print Pens Procedures Adjustment Keyboards Glare Very Mean Scribbles Ballpoint Pens

Author:Roy Blount, Jr.

“There was, like, a week straight of shooting, where, like, all I did was shoot a machine gun. And I hate to - every - it went against all my Jewish and Canadian instincts, but I enjoyed every second of it.”

Hate Week Gun Machines I Hate Instinct Enjoyed Shooting Every Second Machine Guns

Author:Seth Rogen

“When I walk, I try to set a fairly brisk rate. I love walking outside. I hate machines like treadmills. The path that I have chosen to walk is just city streets, but you see pretty houses, trees... my routes have some hills in them; it's not just straight walking. You have to exercise your heart and lungs.”

Trying Heart Hate House Walks Cities Path Tree Streets Walking Exercise Machines I Hate Rate Chosen Hills Routes Lungs Treadmills City Streets

Author:Rita Moreno

“I hate this fast growing tendency to chain men to machines in big factories and deprive them of all joy in their efforts - the plan will lead to cheap men and cheap products.”

Men Bigs Joy Hate Effort Growing Plans Products Machines I Hate Tendencies Chains Factories Workplace

Author:Richard Wagner

“You do not hate the time you waste; it evokes a much more passive emotion than that. You only wish you had it back, like a quarter in an unlucky slot machine.”

Hate Wish Emotion Waste Machines Quarters Passive Wish You Evoke Unlucky Slot Machines

Author:Rick Bragg

“Dear Sir, poor sir, brave sir." he read, "You are an experiment by the Creator of the Universe. You are the only creature in the entire Universe who has free will. You are the only one who has to figure out what to do next - and why. Everybody else is a robot, a machine. Some persons seem to like you, and others seem to hate you, and you must wonder why. They are simply liking machines and hating machines. You are pooped and demoralized, " read Dwayne. "Why wouldn't you be? Of course it is exhausting, having to reason all the time in a universe which wasn't meant to be reasonable.”

“We Americans claim to be a peace-loving people. We hate bloodshed; we are opposed to violence. Yet we go into spasms of joy over the possibility of projecting dynamite bombs from flying machines upon helpless citizens. We are ready to hang, electrocute, or lynch anyone, who, from economic necessity, will risk his own life in the attempt upon that of some industrial magnate. Yet our hearts swell with pride at the thought that America is becoming the most powerful nation on earth, and that she will eventually plant her iron foot on the necks of all other nations. Such is the logic of patriotism.”

Source: Emma Goldman

“Some persons seem to like you, and others seem to hate you, and you must wonder why. They are simply liking machines and hating machines.”

Persons Seems Hate Wonder Like You Machines Hate You

Book:Breakfast of champions: or, Goodbye blue Monday!

Source: Breakfast of champions: or, Goodbye blue Monday!

“I laugh, mirthless, a mad laugh. I savor the scowl on her face, the hate in her eyes. She was like a machine; she was cold and emotionless, bound by logic alone. And I broke her.”

Eye Faces Hate Laughing Cold Logic Machines Mad Bounds Broke Her Eyes

Author:Veronica Roth

“I don't believe in "original sin." I don't believe in "guilt." I don't believe in villains or heroes - only right or wrong ways that individuals have taken, not by choice but by necessity or by certain still-uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances, and their antecedents. This is so simple I'm ashamed to say it, but I'm sure it's true. In fact, I would bet my life on it! And that's why I don't understand why our propaganda machines are always trying to teach us, to persuade us, to hate and fear other people on the same little world that we live in.”

Source: New Selected Essays: Where I Live

“I hate The Police so much I'd probably assassinate Sting, My System of a Down Rages Against the Machine. Tie you up in a Slipknot and hold Alice In Chains inside her dreams.”

Dream Hate Machines I Hate Police Hip Hop Rap Rage Chains Ties Rage Against The Machine Alice In Chains

Author:Chino XL

“We Americans claim to be a peace-loving people. We hate bloodshed; we are opposed to violence. Yet we go into spasms of joy over the possibility of projecting dynamite bombs from flying machines upon helpless citizens.”

People Joy Hate Violence Possibility Citizens Machines Claims Flying Bombs Helpless Bloodshed Dynamite Flying Machines

Book:Emma Goldman

Source: Emma Goldman